Theresa Breiner
Theresa Breiner is a Software Engineer on Google's Speech team working on language support and quality, often for languages spoken in regions that have not previously had much access to technology. She specifically works on research and infrastructure scaling efforts to internationalize the language models that support systems for mobile input and speech recognition, and are used in cool Google products like Gboard and the Assistant. Challenges include finding data to train new models and scaling pipelines to seamlessly work for all kinds of languages despite their differences.
Theresa earned her Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and a Master's of Computer and Information Technology (MCIT), both at the University of Pennsylvania in her hometown of Philadelphia.
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Building Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages
Julia Kreutzer
Mengmeng Niu
Pallavi Nikhil Baljekar
Xavier Garcia
Maxim Krikun
Pidong Wang
Apu Shah
Zhifeng Chen
Yonghui Wu
Macduff Richard Hughes
Google Research (2022)
Writing Across the World's Languages: Deep Internationalization for Gboard, the Google Keyboard
Elnaz Sarbar
Jeremy O'Brien
Evan Elizabeth Crew
Chieu Nguyen
arXiv cs.HC (2019)
Mining Training Data for Language Modeling across the World’s Languages
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU 2018)
